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| Summary: | display hot-plug oddness ... | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 | Reporter: | Michael Meeks <mmeeks> |
| Component: | GNOME | Assignee: | Federico Mena Quintero <federico> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Major | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | captain.magnus |
| Version: | Beta 2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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where is my new montior ?
ah - I found it, hiding underneath the other one ... |
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Created attachment 213451 [details]
where is my new montior ?
Created attachment 213454 [details]
ah - I found it, hiding underneath the other one ...
Wow - so, having worked out how the UI works [ which is IMHO, extremely non-obvious ], and having substituted a sane, workable monitor instead of this non-DPMS VGA -> component thingit; I finally got two heads working beautifully & configuring nicely with the capplet - neat !
OTOH - this is highly non-discoverable; and I have a number of requests - should I file them as separate features ?
a) add gnome-display-properties to the 'display' systray popup menu - so people can find it easily.
b) get the systray applet to listen to randr changes, settle a little, and auto-launch gnome-display-properties in response to the hot-plug
c) choose a default side-by-side layout of the displays - so people can at least see two displays - with one darkened in the capplet.
d) add a short label between the drawing area and the controls, of the form "click, or drag to configure a display"
Otherwise this is truly sexy :-) great work Federico / Soeren.
Michael, Please look through existing multiscreen reports as per https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374148. If your a, b and d suggestions aren't there already, please file them and set them to block 374148. Thanks *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 381020 *** |
I'm using Beta2 and I have a nice monitor next to me (with a component -> VGA cable) to connect to my T60p - with using the radeonhd driver. Anyhow - I run the gnome-display-properties app (which at least tells me my resolution - (vs. the fairly ~useless systray applet). This shows me one screen in the centre of the display, as expected: CRTC 41 Timestamp: 160142 CRTC 42 Timestamp: 160142 Output 43 Timestamp: 160142 Output 44 Timestamp: 160142 Output 45 Timestamp: 160142 output VGA_1 off: -1 -1 -1 -1 output PANEL on: 0 0 1600 1200 output DVI-D_1 off: -1 -1 -1 -1 sorting michael@t60p:~> xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 3520 x 1200 VGA_1 disconnected PANEL connected 1600x1200+0+0 304mm x 228mm 1600x1200 60.0*+ 60.0 DVI-D_1 disconnected 1024x768_60 (0x51) 64.1MHz h: width 1024 start 1080 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 47.7KHz v: height 768 start 769 end 772 total 795 clock 60.0Hz Then I hot-plug my new monitor: michael@t60p:~> xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 3520 x 1200 VGA_1 connected 1600x1200 60.0 60.0 58.9 1600x1024 60.0 1400x1050 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 60.0 58.9 1280x960 60.0 1152x768 54.8 1024x768 60.0 60.0 58.8 800x600 60.3 60.0 56.2 58.7 640x480 59.9 PANEL connected 1600x1200+0+0 304mm x 228mm 1600x1200 60.0*+ 60.0 DVI-D_1 disconnected 1024x768_60 (0x51) 64.1MHz h: width 1024 start 1080 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 47.7KHz v: height 768 start 769 end 772 total 795 clock 60.0Hz michael@t60p:~> CRTC 41 Timestamp: 160142 CRTC 42 Timestamp: 160142 Output 43 Timestamp: 160142 Output 44 Timestamp: 160142 Output 45 Timestamp: 160142 output VGA_1 off: 0 0 0 0 output PANEL on: 0 0 1600 1200 output DVI-D_1 off: -1 -1 -1 -1 sorting xrandr seems to suggest the new external thing it is at least detected and some plausible modelines come up to drive it with. Sadly however the gnome-display-properties thing doesn't show the new monitor; cf. the first attached screenshot. Having said that - it *seems* that there are two monitors there - but piled on top of each other ;-) [ very non-obvious & un-discoverable ]. Having finally worked out I could drag & drop those screens to places - I got a new screenshot: although, really still nothing works (but I suspect this is a combination of broken radeonhd / broken X / broken other stuff) outside the scope of this bug report :-)